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Reading List on Intelligence Agencies & Political Repression

The Politics of Covert Action

Intelligence Networks & Policy Makers

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity In The Global Drug Trade.
Alfred W. McCoy, 1991, Lawrence Hill Books. The author unravels the CIA's
long-standing links to drug-running networks used as allies during counterinsurgency
operations. McCoy's first version of this book was published during the
Vietnam War and dealt only with Southeast Asia. Now McCoy traces CIA
drug-tainted political operations back to post-war France where our government
secretly funded anti-communist political parties and labor unions and
a group of drug smugglers who helped break a dockworkers strike.

The Terrorism Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape
View of Terror. Edward Herman & Gerry O'Sullivan, 1990, Pantheon.
A thorough discussion of how the concept and reality of terrorism has
been packaged and manipulated for to promote authoritarian and rightist
political ideology.

The Puzzle Palace-A Report on America's Most Secret Agency.
James Bamford, 1982, Houghton Mifflin. Details history, bureaucracy and
scope of activities of the National Security Agency.

Secret Contenders: The Myth of Cold War Counterintelligence.
Melvin Beck, 1984, Sheriden Square Press. A devastating critique that
details the waste and lunacy of some CIA clandestine operations and concludes
that U.S. citizens are ultimately the real target of CIA propaganda campaigns.

Covert Action: The Limits of Intervention in the Postwar World.
Gregory F. Treverton, Basic Books 1987. A critical reassessment of covert
operations as a tool of U.S. foreign policy.

Intelligence Requirements for the 1990's: Collection, Analysis,
Counterintelligence, and Covert Action. Roy Godson, ed., Lexington
Books/D.C. Heath. Edited by one of the most zealous analysts of the
intelligence empire, this collection of essays provides a blueprint
for creating the U.S. police state. A shopping list for the guardians
of post-Constitutional America. Sequel to the popular Intelligence
Requirements for the 1980's series of books.

The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. Victor Marchetti and John
Marks, 1980, Dell Books. Classic overview of the CIA and intelligence
operations; updated to include deletions by the CIA. (Marchetti now works
in alliances with the LaRouchians and other quasi-Nazi groups.)

Gifts of Deceit: Sun Myung Moon, Tongsun Park and the Korean Scandal.
Robert Boettcher with Gordon L. Freedman, 1980, Holt, Rinehart & Wilson.
Moon's links to the Korean CIA and other assorted dirty linen is hung
out in this documented expose. Shows Moon as a power-hungry anti-democratic
theocrat.

Rollback: Right-wing Power in U.S. Foreign Policy. Thomas Bodenheimer & Robert
Gould, 1989, South End Press. A look at the confrontational rightist
political agenda that fuels U.S. militarism. In some bookstores or order
it by calling 1-800-533-8478.

The Lawless State: The Crimes of the U.S. Intelligence Agencies.
Morton Halperin et al, 1978, Penguin Books. (Available from the American
Civil Liberties Union/Center for National Security Studies, 122 Maryland
Ave. NE, Washington, DC 20002.) Overview of efforts to spy and disrupt
by the CIA, FBI, NSA, IRS and grand juries.

The Armies of Ignorance: The Rise of the American Intelligence Empire.
William R. Corson, 1977, The Dial Press. A classic study.

A World of Secrets-the Uses and Limits of Intelligence. Walter
Laquer, 1985, The 20th Century Fund. How foreign intelligence is used
and misused; and what can be done as seen by mainstream critics.

Iran-Contragate

Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret
War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection.
Leslie Cockburn, 1987, Atlantic Monthly Press. This account by a CBS
News correspondent is currently the best-documented expose on Iran-Contragate.

The Culture of Terrorism. Noam Chomsky, 1978, South End Press.
A brilliant polemic which argues that behind Iran-Contragate is a relentless
drive for world power by the U.S. government. In some bookstores or order
it by calling 1-800-533-8478.

The Iran Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in
the Reagan Era. Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott and Jane Hunter,
1987, South End Press. Hunter's section on the Israeli intelligence
connection is compelling, but some of the other material drifts into
conspiracy-minded conclusions not entirely supported with facts. Still,
a good overview of Iran-Contragate covert action as not an isolated
incident but a logical outcome of institutionalized U.S. covert action
policy. In some bookstores or order it by calling 1-800-533-8478.

The Soft War: The Uses and Abuses of U.S. Economic Aid in Central
America. Tom Barry and Deb Preusch, 1988, Grove Press. These researchers
from the Albuquerque-based Resource Center have compiled a well-documented
critique of the uses of so-called humanitarian aid in Central America.

Packaging the Contras: A Case of CIA Disinformation. Edgar Chamorro,
1987, Institute for Media Analysis. ($5.00 +1.00 S/H to 145 W. 4th St.,
N.Y., N.Y. 10012) A former Contra leader reveals how the CIA created
the image of the Contras as the "democratic alternative."